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The Board of Visitors of the University of Virginia met, in Open Session, at 11:30 a.m., Friday, May 29, 1998; John P. Ackerly, III, Rector, presided. Charles M. Caravati, Jr., Champ Clark, William G. Crutchfield, Jr., William H. Goodwin, Jr., T. Keister Greer, Mrs. Elsie Goodwyn Holland, Timothy B. Robertson, Terence P. Ross, Henry L. Valentine, II, Walter F. Walker, Benjamin P.A. Warthen, James C. Wheat, III, Joseph E. Wolfe, and J. Michael Allen were present. Also present were John T. Casteen, III, Alexander G. Gilliam, Jr., Paul J. Forch, Leonard W. Sandridge, Jr., Robert W. Cantrell, Peter W. Low, Ms. Colette Capone, Ernest H. Ern, Robert D. Sweeney, William W. Harmon, Ms. Polley Ann McClure, Don E. Detmer, Gene D. Block, L. Jay Lemons, Richard W. Miksad, Haydn N.G. Wadley, W. Reed Johnson, and Ms. Jeanne Flippo Bailes.

The Board heard a report from Mr. Greer, Chair of the Special Committee appointed by the Rector to consider a request to appeal the decision of the Administration to shut down the nuclear reactor at the School of Engineering. Mr. Greer told the Board the Committee had voted to uphold the decision of the Administration. The Board voted 11-3 to accept the recommenda- tion of the Special Committee.

The Board of Visitors of the University of Virginia met, in Executive Session (see enabling motion above), at 1:10 p.m., Friday, May 29, 1998, in the East Oval Room of the Rotunda; John P. Ackerly, III, Rector, presided. Charles M. Caravati, Jr., Champ Clark, William G. Crutchfield, Jr., William H. Goodwin, Jr., T. Keister Greer, Mrs. Elsie Goodwyn Holland, Timothy B. Robertson, Terence P. Ross, Henry L. Valentine, II, Walter F. Walker, Benjamin P.A. Warthen, James C. Wheat, III, Joseph E. Wolfe, and J. Michael Allen were present. Also present were John T. Casteen, III, Alexander G. Gilliam, Jr., Paul J. Forch, Leonard W. Sandridge, Jr., Robert W. Cantrell, Peter W. Low, Ms. Colette Capone, Ernest H. Ern, Robert D. Sweeney, William W. Harmon, Ms. Polley Ann McClure, Don E. Detmer, L. Jay Lemons, and Ms. Jeanne Flippo Bailes.

At 4:10 p.m., the Board went into Open Session and recessed.

The Board resumed, in Open Session, in the Dome Room of the Rotunda at 4:20 p.m. The President proposed resolutions creating three professorships, a resolution renaming a building at the University, and a resolution naming a building at Clinch Valley College.